For my thesis project I am going to combine an academic event and an autobiographical event. Combining both of these events will make my project personal while using material that I found particularly inspiring to guide the work.
Throughout my years in college I’ve taken a multitude of feminist, sociology, and gender studies classes. Each one of these classes has furthered my understanding of feminism and instilled a desire to become a better intersectional feminist. In my Women’s Health class, I spent time researching the benefits and drawbacks of having a homebirth for my final presentation. Learning more about homebirth and giving birth in birthing centers as well as the politics that are involved when it comes to women’s reproductive rights was extremely important to my understanding of my place in the world. In one of my gender studies classes I had the opportunity to recognize my own privileges when compared to women of color, trans women, queer women, and disabled women. After learning all of the opportunities that I am given, I have tried to unwrap the systemic misogyny, racism, ableism, and homophobia (including the prejudices against all those that fall under the LGBTQA umbrella). Attempting to undo these harmful teachings that have been in place since before I was born is difficult and something that I will be working toward for a very long time.
Reading has always been very important in my family and one of my favorite pastimes. My mother is a librarian so I spent a lot of my childhood and teenage years around books. I spent many hours sitting around the library reading while I waited for my mom to finish her shift, volunteered at the library every summer from age 11 to 18, and always tried to read the schools reading lists before the summer was over. My grandma encouraged the love of reading that my sisters and I had. Every year she would give me new Nancy Drew books as gifts at Christmas or my birthday. Eventually I collected all of them and started receiving copies of some of them. I devoured every one of those books that I could get my hands on. I would read them and re-read them until the pages were all dogeared. The Nancy Drew series had everything that I was looking for in books: mystery, a female heroine, and an old timey setting.
My thesis project is going to combine both my feminist teachings with my childhood love of reading the Nancy Drew series. I would like to take the first three Nancy Drew books that were published in 1930, The Secret of the Old Clock, The Hidden Staircase, and The Bungalow Mystery and update them. I would like to redesign the layout of the book as well as the covers. In addition to creating these one of a kind redesigns, I would like to create teacups that go along with the books. All of the books will be bound by me and I will also throw all the pottery.
Jan 30 : Research books; Research book design
Feb 6: Type books, Continue research
Feb 13: Type books; Continue research
Feb 20: Have all books typed out
Feb 27: Book layout draft
March 6: Continue book layout; Begin cover designs
March 13: Final book layout
March 20: Continue cover designs
March 27: Order book binding supplies
April 3: Throw pottery
April 10: Paint pottery
April 17: Paint pottery; Final cover critique
April 24: Have all book pages printed and set in text blocks for binding
May 1: Print all book covers
May 8: Bind book 1
May 15: Bind book 2 and 3
May 22: Finalize all bookbinding and pottery
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